We've all heard Haddaway's song 'What is Love,' which is about attempting to love a girl who doesn't love him back. Aside from what he intended to say, numerous philosophers have pondered the concept. This is because both science and psychology have failed to offer us an explanation. Continue reading to learn more about why love is so vital.
Plato, a student of Socrates who subsequently taught Aristotle, wrote: "Love Makes Us Whole, Again." He hypothesized that humans love to feel complete. He wrote about Aristophanes, a humorous playwright who came to his symposia for supper.
Aristophanes tells the guests about how mankind used to be pleased with four arms, four legs, and two heads. They enraged the gods one day, and Zeus cut them in half. Since then, everyone has been searching for the lost piece of themselves to feel whole once more.
Love is the motivation behind our quest to find the missing piece to our puzzle, or so a drunken Aristophanes claimed in Plato's fable.
Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher, stated that we humans had "Love" to "Trick us into Having Babies." He claims love is an illusion in the form of sexual desire that aids reproduction.
Our mistake is expecting another person to make us happy; this is a ruse perpetrated by nature to create the connection we seek in our children. However, once we have advanced as a species, we revert to our turbulent existence and feel lonely once more.
Russell, a Nobel Prize-winning philosopher, argued that "love is an escape from our loneliness." Russell defines love as a means of satisfying our bodily and psychological desires. We were created to reproduce like any other organism, yet without the pleasure of romantic and passionate love, sex is unsatisfying.
Because we are afraid of the disappointment and misery that the rest of the world has to give, we erect walls to shield ourselves and isolate ourselves. We can drop those boundaries as a result of connection and face the world with greater strength and someone to lean on.
According to Gautam Buddha and most Buddhists, "Love is a Misleading Affliction." According to the enlightened one, we love to gratify our base desires, our ardent cravings being faults. Attachments keep us from following the eight-fold road to nirvana, a state of enlightenment marked by clarity, tranquility, knowledge, and compassion.
Cao Xueqin masterfully expresses this philosophy in Dream of the Red Chamber, teaching that attachments only lead to catastrophe.
The French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir had a more optimistic view of what Love is. This concept has been described as "A Way to Reach Beyond Ourselves," resulting in a strong desire to connect with others and live meaningful lives. She was less interested in Why We Love and more focused on How We Can Love Better. She claimed that if we make romantic love our only objective in life, we will suffer from boredom, sadness, heartbreak, and power games as a result of our reliance on others.
To avoid falling into this trap, Beauvoir advocates loving truly, like in a deep friendship. You make each other's lives better by discovering and improving yourself in this world.
Love was not formed; it evolved with us as a species. I would never adopt just one of these philosophies, nor would I dismiss any of them. They all seem reasonable to me, and I can identify with every one of them.
Finally, Love is not something someone else has defined or attempted to capture. Instead, love is whatever you want it to be for yourself. Love can make you blue and sink deep into a trench, or it can make you thrilled and soar.
Love may or may not do much for a person, but that is all subjective, isn't it? You are not desperate because you need love. You are not heartless if you do not have Love. Not looking for love does not imply a lack of emotion.
You can make love into whatever you want it to be. Here's the reason why love is so crucial. Consider it a blank page that you, as a writer, are eager to fill with words that make you happy. For me, that is love.
Have fun exploring :)
Ananya Gupta
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